Rihanna might as well have been singing that song to president Obama. His Oness shed some tears today while laying out his executive order to combat the out of control gun nuts in this country.

Once again it took him talking about those innocent first graders who were slaughtered at the Sandy Hook Elementary Schoolto bring out his emotional side. I don't know, maybe it's the thought of losing his own daughters to such a tragedy. Or maybe it was the parents of those children reaching out to him in a very personal way.

Right-wingnuts are mad , which is reason enough to like what he did. The thing is, though, this executive action really will not have that much impact on current gun laws across the country. The key provision "would require more gun sellers — especially those who do business on the Internet and at gun shows — to be licensed and would force them to conduct background checks on potential buyers." Another part of the order would include 500 million in federal funding for background checks and tracking lost guns from manufacturers to gun dealers.

This all seems very reasonable to normal people , but this is NRAmerica, sooooo....

"The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage, but they can’t hold America hostage. We can’t accept this carnage in our communities,”

Mr. President, grab some tissue, I suspect that you are going to need it again.

Finally, it's nice to be home again.

I have been on the road over the holidays and trying to blog and stay on top of things but it's been hard.

I am now in a familiar environment and ready to share my thoughts and experiences with you.

"That $500 million could take care of a large part of the mental health and poverty situations. Which in turn would solve a large part of the crazy shootings going on in this country."

I know that sounds like a lot of money, but at the national level, it really isn't.

That much money might make a small dent in mental health care.

But not poverty. $500 million would be a drop in the ocean as far as addressing poverty is concerned. The U.S. has 45 million people living below the poverty line, so $500 million works out to, like, ten bucks per poor person. (And the official poverty line is already a pretty low-ball assessment of poverty as it is. I'd say the real number of poor Americans is considerably higher.)

He is crying because his adult diaper is leaking. (Gay bottoms like Zero always lose sphincter control, and inevitably have to wear diapers to keep them from shitting all over the floor like barnyard animals.)

"Once again it took him talking about those innocent first graders who were slaughtered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School to bring out his emotional side."

But the all-time-record 342 murders in Baltimore (almost all of them Blacks killed by Blacks) don't make anyone cry. This is because Black lives only matter if they can be used against Whitey.

There is a strong racial angle to all of this. Black-on-anyone crime is buried in the press because the elites are out to get Americans (who are not hyphenated and originate from Europe, not Africa). The problem is that the "oppression" narrative is collapsing after 50 years of Cibil Rites and 7 years in the Obamanation, and Americans have gone from apathetic to upset to furious. You could have just let the sleeping lion lie, but no... you had to set his tail on fire. Woe be unto you Dindus.

And kudos to whoever's snarking it up in here, I needed a good laugh today.

"But what really gets me annoyed is that just tonight I saw the ABC news (the only American channel we get on the local free antenna, not ashamed to say we just can't afford cable or satellite)"

Really? The other networks don't broadcast in Puerto Rico? I know maybe everyone in PR doesn't speak English, but I'd think it would still be somewhat profitable to have a presence there.

You can probably catch most of the other networks' shows over the Internet, but you'll have put in a little effort to find them.

"But what really gets me annoyed is that just tonight I saw the ABC news (the only American channel we get on the local free antenna, not ashamed to say we just can't afford cable or satellite)

They were reporting how because of the cold weather coming on, the mayor of NYC was offering shelters to all the homeless!

HOMELESS

The 'greatest country on earth? and there are "homeless" freezing on the streets of New York."

Yeah, no kidding.

The U.S. is easily in the top 5 countries for per capita income -- if you don't count the countries that are just oil tanks with a handful of people wandering around on top, or the tax cheat accomplices like Bermuda or Luxembourg.

So there is no excuse for us to have any homeless people at all. The U.S. has an unbelievably unfair economic system, particularly as compared to every other industrialized country.

I think people need guns because our government is so fascist. Collusion of the government and news corporations is by definition fascism. Why are so many of the commercials on news programs about oil companies? Is it because we might want to buy an oil company? Or is it because oil companies want to sponsor the news so they can tell the networks what to say?

The Fairness Doctrine was ended when Reagan was president. Bill Clinton allowed the media to consolidate, and Fox News won the right to lie for all news organizations when George W. Bush was president.. Ninety per cent of the news media is owned by six corporations thanks to Clinton. Snopes will tell you that it it isn't true that Fox News won the right to lie because a local affiliate did it. That local Fox affiliate was owned by the Fox News corporation, News Corp, and News Corp lawyers represented the case. But there are much worse lies. They can tell us anything. I can't believe people can't see through some of the bigger lies. People have cognitive dissonance. They are sheep. There is more investigative journalism on Facebook than there is on TV.

We also have politicians who are paid by the NRA to oppose sensible gun control legislation.If politicians weren't on the take a lot would get done. Jesse Ventura got concealed carry rights in Minnesota by adding a bunch of regulations the NRA didn't want to the legislation, like background checks, waiting periods, and extensive testing that even included mandatory target shooting tests.

lilacpr2000 said...That $500 million could take care of a large part of the mental health and poverty situations. Which in turn would solve a large part of the crazy shootings going on in this country.

There is a strong racial angle to all of this. Black-on-anyone crime is buried in the press because the elites are out to get Americans (who are not hyphenated and originate from Europe, not Africa). The problem is that the "oppression" narrative is collapsing after 50 years of Cibil Rites and 7 years in the Obamanation, and Americans have gone from apathetic to upset to furious. You could have just let the sleeping lion lie, but no... you had to set his tail on fire. Woe be unto you Dindus.---------------------------So in other words we have to suffer from more cowardly keyboard warriors like James not so Bold pretending to be lions and typing dumb shit in their mother's basement wearing pajamas. Oh, I'm so fucking scared James. Next time pull your mother's dildo out of your ass before talking tough ok sweety?

"The oppressed guys in Oregon are downright daring the feds to reclaim their land. Cliven Bundy still owes 1 mil. Let's send in the Chicago PD. Now that would be interesting."

Actually, right about now would be an excellent time for the feds to go and snatch old Cliven's cattle, since all of the ammosexuals are pointlessly camped out in the forest preserve. They can't very well fight the government in two places at once, now can they? I see a fatal flaw in their cunning plan ...

Anyway, if you want a laugh, here is what I'd call a fairly accurate assessment of America's latest (very un)popular uprising, from the point of view of Taiwan:

Jeffrey Epstein took a plea after being charged with paying underage girls for sex, something defined as statutory rape in Florida. This plea involved the slap on the wrist sentence of 13 months -- and he got to spend his waking hours at his Palm Beach mansion. That is, he only had to check into his "jail" eight hours a day.

Why did he get such a sweetheart deal? Why are the media, always mad for a rape story, not interested?

Why no interest in a case in which federal prosecutors fought to hide the easy conditions of the sentence from the underage victims?

Well, take a guess. It involves Bill Clinton palling around with Epstein, taking the Lolita Express to Pedophile Island, and local Democrat prosecutors who don't seem as interested in a Democrat mega-donor's statutory rape as they were in Rush Limbaugh's pain pill addiction.

"Because it's cool when the government imprisons people whose land it wants to confiscate."

The only ones trying confiscate land are the rustic buffoons currently camped out in an Oregon forest preserve. They want to confiscate national park land and give it to themselves. They feel federal land should be rightfully belong to them, on the iron-clad legal grounds that "We the People" means them specifically, not all U.S. citizens.

These eminent constitutional scholars have arrived at this novel interpretation of our law by virtue of being embarrassingly stupid.

That's essentially their batshit "constitutionalist" argument: a) I was told that stuff over there belongs to "the people" b) I'm a person c) Ergo, that stuff must be mine.

I would really like to see them apply this same clever reasoning to other scenarios. Such as when a policeman pulls them over for speeding, for instance, they might say, "Officer, the motto printed on your car says you're supposed to protect and SERVE. You're a public SERVANT, right? That means you SERVE me. So go make me a sandwich."

I've been a shooting sport enthusiast my whole life. I was a Marine for 10 years. I know how to handle everything from a .22 revolver to a heavy machine gun. But the gun nuts lost me 25 years ago when they started talking about shooting cops.

Where Bush was asked every day if he regretted invading Iraq, Obama is never asked if he thinks leaving Iraq had something to do with the chaos engulfing the region, or the vulnerability of citizens here and in Europe to Islamic State-inspired attacks.

Nor is President Obama ever asked whether he still thinks his effort to oust Assad that has left Syria in shambles, tens of thousands dead, and created millions of refugees was a good idea. Never a mention of the Anarcho-Islamist region formerly known as Libya either.

And while Bush was held responsible for every last casualty that occurred anywhere while he held office, Obama is absolved from responsibility for the massacres, rapes and enslavement of innocents that have followed his numerous foreign policy blunders -- given a pass as the victim of forces he did not enable and disasters he didn't create.

"Be very glad we don't have a Republican president," Walter Russell Mead told us in May of last year, warning that if such were so we would be enduring a "merciless media pounding" on the series of "failures, mistakes, and false starts" that have been our lot since Obama took office. Instead, we have a Democrat who is allowed by the press to fail quietly, discreetly, and off center stage.

"Where Bush was asked every day if he regretted invading Iraq, Obama is never asked if he thinks leaving Iraq had something to do with the chaos engulfing the region."

No imbecile. Because it was the invasion of Iraq which subsequently led to the debaathification of that nation, the murder and oppression of the Sunnis, the dismantling of the Iraqi that led to the creation of ISIS and the chaos in the region.

uptownsteve said..."the dismantling of the Iraqi that led to the creation of ISIS"-----

No.

"ISIS" stands for "Islamic State in Syria".

Obama started the war in Syria to topple Assad. He ran arms to Syria from Libya, where he and Hillary had recently attacked and overthrew Gaddafi. It was during that gun-running operation that I got killed.

The "rebels" that Obama was supplying in Syria is who turned out to be "ISIS".

anotherbozo said..."Of course Dubya issued more. Nobody called him dictatorial, tyrannical or any kind of uppity."

I know this hard for progressives to grasp, but it is not the number of executive orders that matters, but whether they are within the Constitutionally mandated limits regarding the use of executive orders.

The President is the executive branch of the government. Issuing executive orders is what he is supposed to do. Those orders are supposed to facilitate executing laws passed by congress.

Obama instead is creating laws that congress never authorized using executive orders. This is counter to the both the spirit and the letter of the law.

He has also refused to execute laws passed by congress he has disagreed with.

Obama should be impeached for his abuse of his office.

If he is not, then the precedent has been set and President Trump will be able rule by fiat. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed Obama's.

Jenny said...My first comment. Your sentence "Right-wingnuts are mad , which is reason enough to like what he did." is poetry.---

Why do people on the left always cheer tyranny? The Constitution exists to protect our rights. There is a process to change the Constitution in place should the people wish it to be changed. Why do you applaud the President circumventing this process and defying the Constitution? Do yo think this makes further violations of the Constitution more likely?

"Obama started the war in Syria to topple Assad. He ran arms to Syria from Libya, where he and Hillary had recently attacked and overthrew Gaddafi. It was during that gun-running operation that I got killed.

The 'rebels' that Obama was supplying in Syria is who turned out to be 'ISIS'."

No, the U.S. supplied a small number of arms to the Free Syrian Army. Those arms did not come from Libya.

No, the Free Syrian Army did not become ISIS. ISIS are a completely separate rebel group, which originated out of ex-military and pissed-off Sunni Muslims in Iraq. The ex-military officers were ousted from the Iraq government by the Bush administration, so it's completely fair to say that Bush created ISIS.

No, the U.S. didn't start the Syrian Civil War. That war originated out of local Syrian grievances with Assad and long predated any U.S. involvement. When his citizens protested and demanded democratic reform, Assad started massacring them, which touched off violent resistance. And the minimal aid the U.S. gave to the Free Syria Army after the war began has had virtually no impact on the conflict, one way or the other, because the FSA are badly organized and trained, and are not a meaningful fighting force.

Essentially, the U.S. has a difficult foreign policy dilemma now with regards to intervening in the Syrian Civil War, because all of the major participants are despicable people we hate (Bashar al-Assad or jihadi groups).

So congratulations! You got every single detail of this subject wrong! You fail at current events. Find a more reputable media source for your news and try to educate yourself.

For the record, Cosby didn't use roofies; he preferred to use Quaaludes. (It was back in the day when he did his raping, when most people hadn't yet heard about roofies and Quaaludes were still legal.)

Oh, okay, thanks! 'Ludes' is what I believe they called them back in the.

So he used 'Ludes' and wine 'puddin' pops'?

Ahahahaa! I love it! xD what a sneak, "Here have some wine and a Lude it'll relax you, make you more receptive to the *ahem...cough..cough..clear throat* "career advice"

So they went to his little 'love den' and had wine and Ludes and then settled in for some..ahem..cough..cough.."career advice" huh?

Ahahahaa!LOL! I'm dying here, I'm 'bout to pee on myself!

Wouldn't I just love to hear him tell it! Wouldn't we laugh! But of course I'd have to be veerry careful around this guy, 'cos he might just whip out some wine and a Lude! Ahahaha among other things! ahahaha!

Maybe I'm cruel, but I feel no pity for these broads! None whatsoever. They got played and he must still be laughing at them! Thas why they so angry ahahaha! omg Lololol!

He's not only crying for the first graders that were slaughtered, he's crying for the first graders under the guise of "grown men" he has to contend with every single day and all the racism that goes along with it. White women have done a hell of a job raising these so called geniuses who rule our every day lives. The President's father keeps him out of this category, although he's smarter than the whole lot of them.

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